Bronze Medium
In 1936, during a prolonged visit to London, Salvador Dali created the magnificent painting Anthropomorphic Cabinet. It was preceeded by several very elaborate preliminary drawings in pencil and ink which finally led to the creation of this image, today as well known to the public as the “soft watches”.
To the Surrealist Master himself the cabinet image was intrinsically connected to the psychoanalytical theories of Siegmund Freud, whom he deeply admired. This Dali’s own words : “they are kinds of allegories destined to illustrate a certain complacency, to smell the innumerable narcissistic odors emanating from each one of our drawers” and further “The unique difference between immortal Greece and the contemporary epoch is Sigmund Freud, who discovered that the human body, which was purely neoplatonian at the time of the Greeks, that only psychoanalysis is capable of opening”.
In 1979 Dali undertook to recreate the androgynous image of the painting into a true sculptural expression, and a new stunning masterpiece was born.
To assure the highest attainable quality, Dali authorized signor Pesarrodona, the master craftsman of the Mibrosa foundry in Barcelona, to execute the casting of the sculptures. It is with the greatest pride we now present the result; the Anthropomorphic Cabinet.
